Who we are
we are 
An Agile consultancy specialising in digital transformation
Our roots go back to 2006. We were a provider of System and Software engineering improvement services under the banner of DNV IT Global Services (ITGS). Agile software development was already a large part of our activity in Asia. As a result of an MBO in 2011, ITGS became inspearit. Businesses were increasingly embracing Agile product management approach. In 2014, Yann Hamon, Executive VP of inspearit Asia, took charge of the company. Since then, we have led important transformation programs in the region and significantly extended our expertise to include:
We have offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and plan for further expansion in Asia in the future.
In October 2021, why innovation! officially joined Wavestone, a global consulting firm headquartered in Paris, France to better serve our clients in Asia-Pacific.
We are safeguarding a future where we all have better lives by helping companies stay relevant and leverage technologies. We are achieving this goal by developing their capability to continuously inspect and adapt their organisation, operating model, ways of working, mindset and collective as well as individual skills.
We are a consultancy that helps organisations to accelerate their digital transformation by enabling agility, customer centricity and innovation. We provide support in the following ways:
Building our own capabilities
Highly competent teams
Service performance
Building our own capabilities
We uplift our clients’ competencies in all areas required to successfully Identify new revenue stream opportunities, co-create new products and services with business and technology, execute experiment-based, data-driven market-fit strategies, develop and release new digital solutions. We facilitate the mindset shift and leadership culture required to operate an Agile organisation.
Highly competent teams
Our consultants are experienced professionals with a proven track record as practitioners in their areas of expertise. A selective recruitment process focuses on know-how, passion and customer value focus. Our consultants have an average of 15 years of experience in the field. We enable continuous learning through our internal mentoring program, participation in community events and conferences, and regular knowledge sharing sessions and training.
Service performance
Over more than 15 years, we have refined our own proven transformation methodology to enable Agile adoption without disrupting business. We have built hundreds of reusable assets and tools to quickly deliver tangible changes and outcomes. YANG, our service delivery framework, is an Agile process designed for optimising measured benefits while dynamically re-prioritising the change plan based on results, business constraints and new opportunities.
Our values support our purpose: First we care! for the business value we deliver, for the clients and teams we serve and also, for each other. Passion and fun make us dedicated and curious, which are key for satisfying our customers and to stay relevant as consultants. We actively contribute to and develop local Agile communities, participate in conferences and organise events where we love sharing our thoughts and getting inspired.
Joy is a business development professional with over 20 years of experience. She leads the why innovation! sales teams in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai to engage with clients in accelerating their Agile Transformation and Digital Innovation. She is passionate about helping the businesses achieve their goals.
She does not believe in one-size-fits-all or off-the-shelf consulting
services. Instead, Joy promotes to her clients a solution-based engagement.
She works with the team of consultants to prioritise the pain points
and tailor why innovation! frameworks and methodology to optimise the
cost-benefit ratio of proposed services.
She sees herself as a bridge to connect companies with the expertise of why innovation! and bringing business value through pragmatic support at all levels of the organisation.
Lam is a trained computer scientist from National University of Singapore and a graduate from Harvard Business School. In the last 15 years he has held various roles in IT & product development such as engineer, architect, chief technology officer, head of product development.
Lam has coached very international teams (US, Canada, UK, Ireland, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam) to adopt Agile ways of working and to produce tangible results.
He has a track record in leading large-scale agile transformation programs in MNCs across banking, insurance, retail, real estate, aviation, and security industries (e.g.: Singapore Airlines, UOB, HSBC, Prudential, Symantec, DFS).
He is also delivering masterclass training courses in Agile Leadership, Professional Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Product Owners, and Kanban. His highly rated teaching style is known for being engaging, concise, practical, thought-provoking, and inspirational.
With a PhD in Computer Sciences, Yann has 30 years of experience in System and Software Engineering and a strong expertise in Digital Innovation, Agile Adoption and Organizational Transformation.
Through his career, he has been involved in large software development projects and process improvement programs in Europe, Australia and Asia.
As the Innovation Manager of Thales ATM, he led the rejuvenation program of the Air Traffic Management product line and initiated the technical and cultural migration of the Product & Development department. This program received the Australia and New Zealand innovation award in 2008.
In Asia for more than 10 years, Yann has been a consultant, providing coaching and strategic advises to enable and improve business agility and innovation in various industries including Finance, Transport, Retail and Health Care.
Dao Wen is an experienced innovation coach with over 15 years of practical experience in multiple industries. She has an academic background in creativity, innovation and change leadership.
She has worked with companies on projects that range from supporting leadership in developing a strategic plan, assisting R&D, marketing, sales or HR in designing new products, services and business models. She has also helped to build up internal incubators and provide trainings.
She is a certified facilitator for LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY as well as Foursight, that help organizations build vision, strategies and form innovative teams. She has experience supporting companies in building their Agile Innovation culture. Her passion and experience led her to be the first facilitator for Eduscrum in the Greater China Area.
She also teaches Design Thinking and Service Design as a guest lecturer of ICB (Institute for China Business) of Hong Kong University.
Joy is a business development professional with over 20 years of experience. She leads the why innovation! sales teams in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai to engage with clients in accelerating their Agile Transformation and Digital Innovation. She is passionate about helping the businesses achieve their goals.
She does not believe in one-size-fits-all or off-the-shelf consulting
services. Instead, Joy promotes to her clients a solution-based engagement.
She works with the team of consultants to prioritise the pain points
and tailor why innovation! frameworks and methodology to optimise the
cost-benefit ratio of proposed services.
She sees herself as a bridge to connect companies with the expertise of why innovation! and bringing business value through pragmatic support at all levels of the organisation.
Lam is a trained computer scientist from National University of Singapore and a graduate from Harvard Business School. In the last 15 years he has held various roles in IT & product development such as engineer, architect, chief technology officer, head of product development.
Lam has coached very international teams (US, Canada, UK, Ireland, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam) to adopt Agile ways of working and to produce tangible results.
He has a track record in leading large-scale agile transformation programs in MNCs across banking, insurance, retail, real estate, aviation, and security industries (e.g.: Singapore Airlines, UOB, HSBC, Prudential, Symantec, DFS).
He is also delivering masterclass training courses in Agile Leadership, Professional Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Product Owners, and Kanban. His highly rated teaching style is known for being engaging, concise, practical, thought-provoking, and inspirational.
With a PhD in Computer Sciences, Yann has 30 years of experience in System and Software Engineering and a strong expertise in Digital Innovation, Agile Adoption and Organizational Transformation.
Through his career, he has been involved in large software development projects and process improvement programs in Europe, Australia and Asia.
As the Innovation Manager of Thales ATM, he led the rejuvenation program of the Air Traffic Management product line and initiated the technical and cultural migration of the Product & Development department. This program received the Australia and New Zealand innovation award in 2008.
In Asia for more than 10 years, Yann has been a consultant, providing coaching and strategic advises to enable and improve business agility and innovation in various industries including Finance, Transport, Retail and Health Care.
Dao Wen is an experienced innovation coach with over 15 years of practical experience in multiple industries. She has an academic background in creativity, innovation and change leadership.
She has worked with companies on projects that range from supporting leadership in developing a strategic plan, assisting R&D, marketing, sales or HR in designing new products, services and business models. She has also helped to build up internal incubators and provide trainings.
She is a certified facilitator for LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY as well as Foursight, that help organizations build vision, strategies and form innovative teams. She has experience supporting companies in building their Agile Innovation culture. Her passion and experience led her to be the first facilitator for Eduscrum in the Greater China Area.
She also teaches Design Thinking and Service Design as a guest lecturer of ICB (Institute for China Business) of Hong Kong University.
Joy is a business development professional with over 20 years of experience. She leads the why innovation! sales teams in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai to engage with clients in accelerating their Agile Transformation and Digital Innovation. She is passionate about helping the businesses achieve their goals.
She does not believe in one-size-fits-all or off-the-shelf consulting
services. Instead, Joy promotes to her clients a solution-based engagement.
She works with the team of consultants to prioritise the pain points
and tailor why innovation! frameworks and methodology to optimise the
cost-benefit ratio of proposed services.
She sees herself as a bridge to connect companies with the expertise of why innovation! and bringing business value through pragmatic support at all levels of the organisation.
Lam is a trained computer scientist from National University of Singapore and a graduate from Harvard Business School. In the last 15 years he has held various roles in IT & product development such as engineer, architect, chief technology officer, head of product development.
Lam has coached very international teams (US, Canada, UK, Ireland, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam) to adopt Agile ways of working and to produce tangible results.
He has a track record in leading large-scale agile transformation programs in MNCs across banking, insurance, retail, real estate, aviation, and security industries (e.g.: Singapore Airlines, UOB, HSBC, Prudential, Symantec, DFS).
He is also delivering masterclass training courses in Agile Leadership, Professional Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Product Owners, and Kanban. His highly rated teaching style is known for being engaging, concise, practical, thought-provoking, and inspirational.
With a PhD in Computer Sciences, Yann has 30 years of experience in System and Software Engineering and a strong expertise in Digital Innovation, Agile Adoption and Organizational Transformation.
Through his career, he has been involved in large software development projects and process improvement programs in Europe, Australia and Asia.
As the Innovation Manager of Thales ATM, he led the rejuvenation program of the Air Traffic Management product line and initiated the technical and cultural migration of the Product & Development department. This program received the Australia and New Zealand innovation award in 2008.
In Asia for more than 10 years, Yann has been a consultant, providing coaching and strategic advises to enable and improve business agility and innovation in various industries including Finance, Transport, Retail and Health Care.
Dao Wen is an experienced innovation coach with over 15 years of practical experience in multiple industries. She has an academic background in creativity, innovation and change leadership.
She has worked with companies on projects that range from supporting leadership in developing a strategic plan, assisting R&D, marketing, sales or HR in designing new products, services and business models. She has also helped to build up internal incubators and provide trainings.
She is a certified facilitator for LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY as well as Foursight, that help organizations build vision, strategies and form innovative teams. She has experience supporting companies in building their Agile Innovation culture. Her passion and experience led her to be the first facilitator for Eduscrum in the Greater China Area.
She also teaches Design Thinking and Service Design as a guest lecturer of ICB (Institute for China Business) of Hong Kong University.
